Junk playground

For more than a century, playgrounds have played a pivotal yet evolving role in the lives of urban children.

And parents are forced to stand on the sidelines.

Chapter Zero Singapore | Our 1st Pop-Up Adventure Playground | Baghdad Street, Singapore | 06 Aug 2016 | Photo by Kasia Poleszak-Langner

Schoolkids having fun among the rubble of the legitimized bombsite - playground at Lollard Street Lambeth London 1957

Can this environment that looks more like a junkyard help kids engage happily in free play? These parents and organizers in one of the UK's "adventure playgrounds" say yes.

Junk playgrounds, or adventure playgrounds, give children unstructured, imaginative, and risky play — these experts talk about why that's a good thing.

Scotland's first adventure playground

Ever since I read The Atlantic's article about \"adventure playgrounds\" a few years back, I've been obsessed with bringing my now-ten-year-old daughter to one. Like many school-age children, she lost interest in slides, swings, and climbing structures around the third grade, but kids won't find any equipment like that in the just-opened play:groundNYC on Governors Island. In

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